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VC Kara Nortman bet early on women’s sports, and now she’s creating the market
As women's sports enters what feels like a sustained boom period -- the Golden State Valkyries just played their first WNBA next season, the NWSL is expanding, media rights deals are growing -- Nortma...
View the articleSupabase hit $5B by turning down million-dollar contracts. Here’s why.
Vibe coding has taken the tech industry by storm, and it’s not just the Lovables and Replits of the world that are winning. The startups building the infrastructure behind them are cashing i...
View the articleSoftBank stays in as Meesho $606M IPO becomes India’s first major e-commerce listing
Meesho heads for India's first big e-commerce IPO next week.
View the articleHow OpenAI and Google see AI changing go-to-market strategies
AI is changing how investors and startups bring their products to market. Three experts offered their insights at TechCrunch Disrupt.
View the articleThe race to regulate AI has sparked a federal vs state showdown
The fight over AI regulation isn't about the technology -- it's about whether Washington or the states get to set the rules, and what happens to consumers caught in between.
View the articleBest iPad apps to boost productivity and make your life easier
There are many iPad apps to help you organize recipes; sync tasks across devices; be more productive; and manage your notes.
View the articlePoems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
View the articleAnduril’s autonomous weapons stumble in tests and combat, WSJ reports
Defense tech startup Anduril Industries has faced numerous setbacks during testing of its autonomous weapons systems, according to new reporting by the WSJ. The problems cited include more than a doze...
View the articleThis Thanksgiving’s real drama may be Michael Burry versus Nvidia
Is Burry the canary in the coal mine, warning of a collapse that's inevitable? Or could his fame, his track record, his now unrestricted voice, and a fast-growing audience trigger the very implosion h...
View the articleBest iPad apps for unleashing and exploring your creativity
We’ve compiled a list of some of the best iPad apps for creativity that are available on the App Store.
View the articleGlīd won Startup Battlefield 2025 by building solutions to make logistis simpler, safer, and smarter
We're excited to interview the winner of Startup Battlefield 2025, and Glid co-founder Kevin Damoa, on this week's Build Mode!
View the articleThe future will be explained to you in Palo Alto
On Wednesday evening at PlayGround Global in Palo Alto, some very smart people who are building things you don’t understand yet will explain what’s coming. This is the final StrictlyVC event of 20...
View the articleNordic founders are taking bigger swings, and it’s paying off
Ten years ago, raising €1 million in Copenhagen was enough to make waves in the region’s tech scene. Today, the Nordics are turning out billion-dollar companies like Lovable — which hit $200 mi...
View the articleHere are the 49 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2025
Last year was monumental for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond. How will 2025 compare?
View the articleJustiGuide wants to use AI to help people navigate the US immigration system
The startup uses AI to help immigrants understand the system, connect with lawyers, and reduce associated costs.
View the articleOpenAI claims teen circumvented safety features before suicide that ChatGPT helped plan
In August, parents Matthew and Maria Raine sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, over their 16-year-old son Adam's suicide, accusing the company of wrongful death. On Tuesday, OpenAI responded to the l...
View the articleRedwood Materials reportedly cuts 5% of staff after $350M raise
The battery recycling and cathode production company, founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, has started using recycled battery materials to create energy storage solutions for AI data centers.
View the articleJeff Bezos’ New AI Venture Quietly Acquired an Agentic Computing Startup
Project Prometheus has raised over $6 billion in funding and hired over 100 employees, a handful of whom joined through its acquisition of General Agents, according to records and sources.
View the articleChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot
A timeline of ChatGPT product updates and releases, starting with the latest, which we’ve been updating throughout the year.
View the articleA comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs
A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024.
View the articleMultiple London councils report disruption amid ongoing cyberattack
Three London councils reported disruption, prompting officials to shut down phone lines and networks and activate emergency plans.
View the articleAmazon Workers Issue Warning About Company’s ‘All-Costs-Justified’ Approach to AI Development
Amazon Employees for Climate Justice says that over 1,000 workers have signed a petition raising “serious concerns” about the company’s “aggressive rollout” of artificial intelligence tools....
View the articleGM tech executive shakeup continues on software team
Three of GM's top software executives have left the automaker in recent months, as the company moves to combine its disparate technology businesses.
View the articleBreaking down the boom in the Nordic’s startup ecosystem
On this week’s Equity, we sat down with Dennis Green-Leiber, the founder of the AI company Propane, to talk about the booming success of the Nordic ecosystem.
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